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United Nations Tackles Y2K

World body responds to potential crisis

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U.N. Members Schedule Y2K Crisis Summit

by Dave Murphy
ISSN 1535-3613

Dave Murphy, ITrain founder One Hundred and Twenty members of the United Nations will be represented this Friday at the organization's first Year 2000 (Y2K) computer effects international conference. This is a major crisis summit to determine how the member countries can work hand-in-hand to combat the effects of a potentially global computer failure.

"The consequences of unpreparedness in any one country can rapidly spill over to other parts of the world, " said Ambassador Ahmad Kamal of Pakistan. Kamal organized the meeting Friday and is the chairman of the U.N. Economic and Social Council's working group on informatics.

The meeting will focus on ways to organize sharing of technical data on the ongoing Y2K response efforts of each country. However U.N. officials acknowledge they will discuss crisis management and the most effective response to a world-wide computer information disruption, should it occur. Some of the working groups will address the possibility of creating an emergency response system.

The United Nations website is www.un.org

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